Hi Sarah, you are quite welcome !
Jan Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Thank you for following up on this and for the pointer to the bug. > > sarah > **** > > jan damborsky wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> you are hitting existing problem in fdisk(1M) command (installer uses >> fdisk(1M) for creating Solaris2 partition) - if Solaris2 partition >> starts >> after 4GiB, it can't be resized - please see release notes for details >> (bug 6690194): >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/ >> >> The fix for this issue was delivered into build 90: >> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6690194 >> >> As a possible solutions for this problem you might pick up fdisk(1M) >> command from build 90 and manually delete/recreate Solaris2 partition, >> then installer would use right partition size. >> >> Thank you, >> Jan >> >> >> Qingye Jiang (John) wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am installing OS 2008.05 onto a lenovo laptop with 70 GB of HD >>> space. Originally I have NTFS (10 GB), Solaris (20 GB), and FAT32 >>> (40GB). After installing OS 2008.05 I found that I need more space, >>> so I went back to Windows and deleted Solaris (20 GB) and FAT32 (40 >>> GB), then create an empty partition of 60 GB for OS 2008.05. The >>> installation program did pickup the 60 GB participation and >>> installed OS 2008.05 onto it without any complain. However, after I >>> boot into the system it has only 20 GB of disk space -- the >>> additional 40 GB was gone! >>> >>> Actually this happened to several machines in our team. It is a >>> reproducible bug! You install OS 2008.05 once, and it remembers how >>> big your partition was, and continues to use that size even though >>> it has been changed! >>> >>> Solutions? >>> >>> ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Qingye Jiang (John) >>> `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) Senior Manager >>> (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..- Sun Developer Network, China >>> _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' Phone: +86-10-62673347 >>> (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' http://developers.sun.com.cn/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> About ME: visit http://www.qyjohn.net/, http://calendar.qyjohn.net/. >>> About US: visit http://wiki.gceclub.sun.com.cn/index.php/SDN_China . >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> indiana-discuss mailing list >>> indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> indiana-discuss mailing list >> indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
